Also known as NMB Loc. 17622; 87-09-03
Where: Bocas, Panama (9.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 81.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: NN15 nannofossil zone, Escudo de Veraguas Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The upper and lower contacts of the formation are not exposed. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: from Collins et al. (1999), planktic foraminifera suggest 1.8 Ma near the top and 3.5 Ma at the base. PPP dataset indicates an age range between 3.6 and 3.5 Ma, nannofossil zone NN15.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone and poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. COLLECTORS: unknown (PPP staff), 8/7/87. REPOSITORIES:collections presumably held at USNM, BMNH and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: L. S. Collins and A. G. Coates. 1999. A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology (357) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61337: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Anthozoa | |
Asterosmilia profunda Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Microgaza sp. Dall 1881 top snail | |
Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
? Compsodrillia sp. Woodring 1928 snail
Miraclathurella sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Rissoidae indet. Gray 1847 snail | |
Oliva (Oliva) sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
Olivella (Minioliva) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail
Olivella (Macgintiella) sp. Olsson 1956 olive snail | |
Haustellum sp. Schumacher 1817 murex snail | |
Marginellidae indet. Fleming 1828 margin shell
Volvarina sp. Hinds 1844 margin shell | |
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928 true whelk
Metula sp. Adams and Adams 1853 true whelk | |
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Cotonopsis sp. Olsson 1942 snail | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Agladrillia (Agladrillia) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891 auger snail | |
Distorsio decussata Valenciennes 1832 snail
Distorsio clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail | |
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
Sconsia grayi Adams 1855 snail | |
Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell | |
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail | |
Styliola sp. Gray 1850 snail
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail | |
Volvulella sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
? Cocculina sp. Dall 1882 snail | |
Pseudotorinia sp. Sacco 1892 snail
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840 snail
Eulimella (Ebalina) sp. Thiele 1929 snail | |
Acteon sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Lamellinucula) sp. Schenck 1944 nut clam | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Anadara (Rasia) sp. Gray 1857 ark | |
Scaphopoda | |
Bathoxiphus sp. Pilsbry 1897 tusk shell | |
Gadilopsis sp. Woodring 1925 tusk shell | |
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